Wrench



v 1,635,930 J y 1927' P. A. FORSDAHL WRENCH Filed June 28. 1924 -A L- "a.

WITNESS ATTORNEY Patented July 12, 1927. v

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PETER A. FORSDAHL, OF SULPHUE'SPRINGS, ALBERTA, CANADA.

WRENCH. I I

Application filed June 28, 1924. Serial No. 723,011. I My present invention has reference to an and in this manner the jaw 6 may be held jn' proven ent wrench-es, fixed relation to the jaw 1; The jaw 6 My ob ect is to produce a wrench of an exhas its actlve face toothed;

tremely simple construction that will ratchet v The stop element 11 is held in frictional over the article engaged, and also wherein engagement between the ears 9 so that the the movable jaw may be locked in engagefree swinging thereof is preventedbut other ment with the article. means may be employed to accomplish this To the attainment of the foregoing and purpose.

other objects which will present themselves Normally the stop element 11 is in the po as the nature of the invention is better unsition illustrated in the full lines in Figs.

derstood, reference is to be had to the draw- 1 and 2. The jaw end of the wrench is ing which accompanies and which forms moved to engage an article. The jaw 6 will part of this application. swing upon its pivot 4 to permit ofthe ar In the drawing tic'le being arranged between the jaws. The

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the improvespring 7 will influence thejaw. against the ment with parts broken away and in section, article. so that the article may be turned Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof, and by the wrench. As stated, the element 11' Fig. 3 is a sectional View on the line 33 is only swung against the shank 5 of the of Fig. 1. Y jaw 6 when it is desired to lock the said The fixed aw 1 of the improvement is oifjaw 6. set from the handle 2 which is integrally Having described the'invention,Iclaim: formed therewith. The jaw has its active A wrench including a fixed jaw having an face toothed and is formed at its juncture oiiset shank provided with a pocket adjacent with the handle 2 with a pocket 3 whose to the jaw, a swingable jaw having a roundside walls are curved. In this pocket there ed shank which is received in the pocket and is pivoted, as at 4, the shank 5 0f the movpivoted therein, there being a pair of upable jaw 6. The jaw 6 is influenced toward standing ears on the shankof the fixed jaw, the jaw 1 by a spring 7 thatlias one end a stop rod pivoted therebetween and norreceived in a socket 8 in the rear wall promally held from movement by frictional envided by the pocket 3. gagement, said stop rod being swingable into The handle 2, at a suitable distanceincontacting engagement with the pivoted jaw ward of the pocket 3 is provided with upand designed to rest against the shank of standing ears 9 arranged in pairs, and pivthe fixed jaw when in such contacting enotally secured, at 10, between the ears there gagement. is a rod 11. The rod is swingable to con- In testimony whereof I aflixmy signature. tact the shank of the jaw 65, as illustrated by 7 the dotted lines in Fig. 1 of the drawings I PETER A. F ORSDAHL. 

